Tag: Atlantic Station
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Complaints about parking deck costs, lack of finance put three Atlanta developments in line for property tax breaks
Preliminary OK for property tax breaks worth $11.5 over 10 years to Grant Park, Atlantic Station and Downtown developers.
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Georgia rolls out $1 million welcome mat for Macy’s Midtown tech hub
Georgia wouldn’t have offered $1 million if they didn’t think it was necessary, said a state leader.
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Second round of voting starts for Westside city council seat; candidates meet in forum
Atlanta’s going to get a freshman city council member from the Westside’s district 3, in a special election runoff. Some of the votes will depend on what people think of candidates who have — and who haven’t — been in office.
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Atlanta west side special election scheduled; city hall activist to run
Atlanta’s west side district 3 will send a new representative to City Council in a March special election. Matthew Cardinale is making a run for it.
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Atlanta City Council candidate Q and A: District 3
Four candidates want to be on City Council from a district that runs all the way from Atlantic Station highrises to the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium and the westside bungalows of some of Atlanta’s most storied neighborhoods — and some of its most distressed.
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New GSU report on Atlanta’s TADs raises concerns about a ‘quite successful’ program
Georgia State University released a research paper Tuesday that portrays Atlanta’s massive TAD program as “quite successful” despite some management techniques that appear to be “odd.” Default in one district could occur in 2024.
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Atlantic Station deal shows need to monitor urban renewal projects
Two funding issues related to the development of Atlantic Station illustrate the ongoing oversight needed to manage the type of big urban renewal projects so popular in Atlanta.
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Proctor Creek area, other Atlanta brownfields, to be assessed by city
Atlanta is about to embark on another assessment of brownfields that are located in strategic locations the city seeks to prime for redevelopment.
The first site on the list is the Proctor Creek watershed area. The new Falcons stadium is in the Proctor Creek basin, which also encompasses a portion of a planned $30 million urban renewal program to be funded by Atlanta and the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation.
The city has allocated $392,000 for the project. Proposals are due Nov. 5. The first report is due April 30, 2015 and the federal funding for the project expires Sept. 30, 2016, according to the request for proposals.
